1. HW: 1. WRITE YOUR NAME IN HIEROGLYPHICS
ON THE (CARTOUCHE) NAME TAG PROVIDED
2. PUT YOUR NAME IN ENGLISH AT THE BOTTOM
• Do Now: Make a flashcard for:
• Shenu:
• Also called a Cartouche; an oval ring placed
around the names of royalty and gods in
hieroglyphic inscriptions

2. SCRIBES OF EGYPT
• Anyone, whatever their background,
could undertake this profession, if they
had the right education and training.
• An Ancient Egyptian scribe had the
opportunity rise to high ranks and even
become a royal scribe bringing him
wealth, land and power.
• An Ancient Egyptian scribe was exempt
from the daily toil of physical labor and
was viewed with respect by society.

4. JOBS OF SCRIBES
• Tax Collectors
• Law administrators
• Writing letters and legal documents such as marriage
contracts
• Recording harvests, food supply and distribution
• Documenting rainfall and water levels of the Nile
• Controlling the food supply and distribution
• Conducting census of the population
• Overseeing the construction of buildings including
planning, surveying and supervising

5. FASHION
• Men wore short kilts
• Women wore simple dresses &
robes
• Everyone wore sandals

6. EGYPTIAN ROBES

7. SIMPLE DRESS WITH SHAWL

8. HAIR
• Egyptians braided/plaited
their hair
• They also wore wigs

9. EGYPTIAN MAKE-UP
• Both men and women wore eye make up, rouge and
perfumed oils that softened the skin and prevented
burning in the sun and damage from the sandy winds.
• Kohl is a mixture of soot and galena. Kohl was stored
in richly decorated containers called kohl pots.
• The malachite stone was crushed and then mixed as
the green eye make up.
• Red ochre is a pigment made from clay & used as
blush
• Henna is from the leaves of the henna shrub & was
used as red hair dye & fingernail coloring

11. • Kohl pots

12. •
HIEROGLYPHICS
• “Words of the gods”
• This form of writing began c. 3000 BCE
• Egyptian hieroglyphs were a combination of
sound-signs, pictograms, and ideograms.
• There are over 700 symbols
• Only consonants - no vowels
• No punctuation

13. • Hieroglyphs are written in rows or
columns and can be read from left to
right or from right to left.
• You can tell which direction to read
because the human or animal figures
always face towards the beginning of the
line.

15. CARTOUCHE / SHENU
• The oval boarder for the
names of gods & royalty is
called a cartouche or a shenu
• “Cartouche” named for the
similarity of French bullet
cartridges
• “Shenu” named for the circular
shen symbol of the sun &
eternity

17. • Heh is the god of eternity
& holds the shen in both
talons.
• Horus & other vulture
gods also hold the shen.
• The sun symbol also
worked as protection for
the named person inside
it.